Global Warming

Through the four different ideas brought up through this debate project I believe in the stance that something should be done to our ways of living because we know global warming is human caused. I have found that a crucial article in my beliefs was found through Donald R. Prothero’s (2012) research. At first when this project began, I was unsure on my beliefs about global warming but my stance is now clear after this moving article. It has a few main topics that were crucial elements to the decline in our atmospheres ozone layer increases of emissions of greenhouse gasses through carbon dioxide has resulted in glaciers melting. Plants that can absorb some of these gasses are being cut down and therefore adding to carbon dioxide increase. The toxicity of the air is absorbed into the warming oceans and killing marine life and this I think is horrific. I also was unaware of the fact that scientists with bad degrees are being paid to tell the general public that global warming is human caused, when unanimously it is decided among all scientists that there is no proof it isn’t human caused. Of course these scientists are being paid by none other than the big money makers that only want their products to be sold or used to make a profit.

My group was told we must present that global warming is real and occurring. This was helpful because it was a view that most people believe and it isn’t extreme in one way or another. During the debate I had a hard time understanding the logic behind group four. They were told to research and defend that global warming isn’t happening at all and it conflicted with all the evidence my group researched. Although we were able to rebut them to one of their responses it wasn’t what I would have liked to bring up. In an article by Roger Revelle (2012)states that the excess amount of CO2 in the atmosphere is absorbed by the ocean is not identical to the rate of...

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